The user pages at Daily Kos have been rebuilt, as last discussed here.
We’ve been accepting feedback, and made many changes based on requests. Now we’re taking the next step, which is to change the links on site to go to the new pages, meaning more of you will see them and use them. The old pages will remain available, but you’ll have to access them either through your My Activity Stream page from the menu or by editing the URL directly. To get to an old-style user page, go to a user index page, and in the URL, replace users with user (that is, old is singular, new is plural).
As a reminder of some of the major goals for these pages versus the old ones:
- Make these pages width responsive so they are readable and usable on every device and screen size, from desktop to phones, and to allow for user control of screen and font magnification.
- Make our pages more accessible to people with disabilities and people using assistive technology on the web. (This includes making linked areas large enough for fingers on touch devices and for people with tremors or other fine motor coordination issues, which is part of the WCAG official standard.)
- Integrate into our more modern codebase for improved maintainability and unified site behavior
Some example pages to start from, if you want to tour the user profile pages:
Below, we’re still interested in your constructive feedback and comments. Remember that kind and constructive comments that clearly describe a task you can’t do as well as before are the most successful at getting the changes you want and need.